Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Topic for final exam

The final exam will be given at two times.

May 22: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

May 29: 10 a.m. to noon.

The final is comprehensive. You will need your yellow sheets, a calculator, scratch paper and a pencil.

The test will be four or five pages long. The amount from each part of the class will be

25%-30% from first exam
25%-30% from second exam
40-50% from after the second exam

On the list of topics below, any topic with an asterisk (*) means that though it might have been introduced before the first or second exam, it gets used throughout the class, so I don't necessarily count it as in the percentage of problem promised for each section.

Any topic in bold means you are expected to know how to get the answer without a formula or instructions being provided. In many cases, this means knowing how to use your calculator properly.

First exam
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frequency tables
stem and leaf plots
five number summary
box and whiskers
IQR and outliers for box and whiskers
Mean*, median*, mode, mid-range
parameter* and statistic*
population* and sample*
categorical data*
numerical data*
Bar charts
Pie charts
Line charts
Ogives
dotplots
percentage increase and decrease
contingency tables*
degrees of freedom*
conditional probability*
frequency and relative frequency
inclusion-exclusion
complementary event
order of operations*



Second exam through April 8
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standard deviation*
confidence intervals and margin of error
t-scores and z-scores*
raw scores, z-scores and percentages*
common critical values
Central Limit Theorem
Confidence of victory

After second exam
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Binomial coefficients and falling factorial
expected value of correct results
dependent and independent probabilities
Classic and modern parimutuel
expected value of a game
exactly r correct out of n trials
Bayesian probabilities
Hypothesis testing:
null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, type I error, type II error
test statistic
threshold for xx% confidence (one-tailed high, one-tailed low, two-tailed)
one sample testing
two samples testing
Correlation (rx,y and the equation of the line yp = ax + b)

If you have any specific questions or want to make time to talk to me before the final, send me an e-mail and we can make an appointment.

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